This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Writing Style > Figurative Language – Quiz 6 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Figurative Language Quiz 6 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. MY BOYFRIEND IS MY PRINCE CHARMING. A) PERSONIFICATION. B) METAPHOR. C) ONOMATOPOEIA. D) SIMILIE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) METAPHOR. 2. What is the meaning of the sentence:Tom is a walking dictionary? A) Todd is an actual dictionary. B) Todd knows the meaning of many words. C) Todd looks like a dictionary. D) Todd likes to read. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Todd knows the meaning of many words. 3. Vince gulped down the Mountain Dew. A) Oxymoron. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Hyperbole. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 4. "The firework exploded in the air, making a big BOOM in the air." is an example of A) Personification. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Metaphor. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 5. Choose the correct type of figurative language found in the following sentence:Time is as cruel as a thief in the night. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 6. An object or animal is spoken of as if it has human feelings, thoughts or attitudes. A) Hyperbole. B) Metaphor. C) Simile. D) Personification. E) Figures of Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Personification. 7. Select the statement that features a hyperbole. A) Kaliyah went to Six Flags recently. B) Grandmother is older than the hills. C) Outside was extremely cold. D) Chips and guacamole are so delicious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grandmother is older than the hills. 8. What is a palindrome? A) A direct comparison of two unlike things. B) An extreme exaggeration. C) A play on words by using words that have multiple meanings. D) A word that can be read both forward and backward. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A word that can be read both forward and backward. 9. The dragon was as big as a house. A) Simile. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 10. ''Your smile shines as bright as the sun" is an example of a A) Personification. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simile. 11. The snow is a white blanket covering the grass. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 12. The car raced by, screaming for attention A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Idiom. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 13. Don't be left out in the cold. Make sure you do your Christmas shopping early this year. A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 14. There was a mountain of candy at my house after Halloween. A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 15. "The cold night air smelled of smoke and wood as the nearby houses let of a faint glow" is an example of A) Imagery. B) Tone. C) Personifcation. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imagery. 16. The students are as busy as bees as they worked to finish their final project for the school year.T/F-The students were not completing their work and were being lazy in the sentence above. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 17. A figure of speech in which an object or animal is given human feelings, thoughts, or attitudes A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 18. It feels like forever until summer! A) Allusion. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 19. My backpack weighs a ton! A) Metaphor. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 20. My friend and I got lost in the corn maze, and we wandered around forever before we finally escaped. Which phrase from the sentence is the hyperbole? A) Lost in the corn maze. B) Wandered around forever. C) Finally escaped. D) My friend and I got lost. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wandered around forever. 21. Which word is an onomatopoeia in the sentence below?The glass crashed onto the floor. A) Crashed. B) Glass. C) Floor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crashed. 22. Squish, splash were the sounds of my feet crashing through the leaves to the wet ground below. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopoeia. 23. Ana is as slow as molasses in the mornings.What does this figurative language mean? A) Ana is not moving. B) Ana is moving fast. C) Ana is sitting down. D) Ana moves very slow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ana moves very slow. 24. Don't get so worked up, buddy. She's only pulling your leg. A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. E) Proverb/adage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 25. Which figure of speech is used in the sentence:'Her eyes were sparkling diamonds'?a) Simileb) Metaphorc) Personificationd) Hyperbole A) Personification. B) Simile. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metaphor. 26. Comparing 2 things NOT using like or as. (Hint:uses "was" ) A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Tone. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 27. A metaphor compares A) An exaggeration. B) Different types of animals. C) Two things using "like" or "as". D) Two things without using "like" or "as". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two things without using "like" or "as". 28. The baby slept as quiet as a mouse.What is this an example of? A) Simile. B) Allusion. C) Metaphor. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 29. America is a melting pot. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Personification. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphor. 30. What type of figurative language is this??The ocean called my name. A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 31. Comparing two objects using like or as A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simile. 32. The ice sculptor's hands fluttered like hummingbird wings. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Hyperbole. D) Alliteration. E) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 33. Katelyn didn't realize anyone was in the room while she was singing. "Don't stop, Beyonce, " said her mom. "You sound great!" A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allusion. 34. The leaves skipped across the ground. A) Idiom. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 35. Rachel is a walking encyclopedia. A) Idiom. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metaphor. 36. Eight eleves snick into every present on Evergreen Street. A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Simile. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 37. A simile COMPARES 2 things using the words ..... or ..... A) And, or. B) Like, as. C) And, like. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Like, as. 38. When a phrase conveys a figurative meaning that is difficult or impossible to understand based only on its literal interpretation. A) Idiom. B) Oxymoron. C) Allusion. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Idiom. 39. What kind of figurative language is being used?The bus hit a tree and went boom as it exploded. A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onomatopoeia. 40. What is the meaning of the following statement?The stars were diamonds in the nighttime sky. A) The stars are expensive. B) The stars are not out tonight. C) The stars were bright and sparkling. D) It is almost night time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The stars were bright and sparkling. 41. The elderly woman who was thrown from the train was having a rough morning. A) Hyperbole. B) Understatement. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Understatement. 42. What type of figurative language is shown?While working, write your wackiest words down. A) Metaphor. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Personification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 43. We learned that after Christmas break we would be hosting a student teacher. A) Personification. B) Oxymoron. C) Idiom. D) Pun. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxymoron. 44. Click the button to take the picture. A) Simile. B) Hyperbole. C) Personification. D) Onomatopeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Onomatopeia. 45. He clattered and clanged as he washed the dishes. A) Simile. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 46. What is the following sentence an example of:She sells sea shells by the sea shore. A) Pun. B) Simile. C) Alliteration. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Alliteration. 47. Red Rover, Red Rover send Robin right over.This sentence is an example of A) Hyperbole. B) Alliteration. C) Personification. D) Onomatopoeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alliteration. 48. "I caught a fish as big as a house, " is an example of what literary device? A) Personification. B) A simile. C) A hyperbole. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A hyperbole. 49. When a word sounds like its meaning. A) Alliteration. B) Onomatopoeia. C) Personification. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Onomatopoeia. 50. My dog ate so much he looked like a blimp. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Personficiation. E) Onomatopeia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simile. 51. The sun smiled on me as I played kickball. A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 52. "Rita, I have told you a million times to clean your room!" screamed her mother. Rita's room was a pigsty, with clothes strewn everywhere and empty granola bar wrappers littering the floor. ''I don't know how anyone can live like this!" her mother continued. What type of figurative language is used above? A) Personification. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 53. Giving a nonliving thing human qualities A) Personification. B) Alliteration. C) Assonance. D) Repetition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Personification. 54. Identify and categorised the following statements and say what are they? Similes (1), Metaphor (2), Idioms (3)1) Rose is like a rose.2) My car grumbled. 3) My mother grounded me for 100 days. A) (1), (2), (3). B) (1), (3), (2). C) (3), (2), (1). D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) (1), (2), (3). 55. A comparison of two unlike things by saying one thing is a dissimilar object or thing. A) Simile. B) Metaphor. C) Idiom. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphor. 56. He had hairy hands he had hoped he'd handle. A) Alliteration. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Hyperbole. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alliteration. 57. Name the figurative language: "he was so strong, he could chop the tree down with one swing of an axe." A) Idiom. B) Hyperbole. C) Metaphor. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole. 58. "Last of them all my ram, the leader, cameweighted by wool and me with my meditations ..... 'Nohbdy will not get out alive, I swear.Oh, had you brain and voice to tellwhere he may be now, dodging my fury!Bashed by his hand and based on this rock wallhis brains would strew the floor, and I should haverest from the outrage Nohbdy worked upon me." ' A) Epithet. B) Imagery. C) Verbal Irony. D) Situational Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Situational Irony. 59. I can smell pizza from a mile away. A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Onomatopoeia. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 60. The boy was standing like a statue on the sidewalk in everyone's way. A) Simile. B) Personification. C) Hyperbole. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesFigurative Language Quiz 1Figurative Language Quiz 2Figurative Language Quiz 3Figurative Language Quiz 4Figurative Language Quiz 5Figurative Language Quiz 7Figurative Language Quiz 8Figurative Language Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books